Sam Schmidt’s Indy Lights team and one of its current drivers are exploring their options for 2014.

As was announced a couple weeks ago, reigning Pro Mazda champion and Schmidt Peterson Indy Lights driver Jack Hawksworth is doing his first IndyCar test today at Sebring International Raceway with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Here’s a tweet from the team, below:

Hawksworth described the step up: “The big thing is for me that the braking is different, in the Lights car you can’t hit the brake nearly as hard as you can hit it in an IndyCar,” he told IndyCar.com. “But the way you actually drive the car in terms of how you went into the corner, how you try to get your turning done in the corner is quite similar.”

If Hawksworth makes the jump to IndyCar next year, either on his own or with the support of a Mazda scholarship for winning the championship (what Tristan Vautier did this year and Josef Newgarden did in 2012), that will free up at least one Indy Lights seat.

According to Trackside Online’s Joe Berkemeier, the team is testing four drivers in Indy Lights: Brazilian Luis Felipe Derani, Colombian Juan Piedrahita and Americans Jimmy Simpson and Spencer Pigot. Derani and Simpson will test two days with Pigot and Piedrahita sharing a third car a day apiece.